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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. What Christ saith, Mat. 18. 15. &c. and Paul, 1 Cor. 5. and 2 Thess. 3. Tit. 3. 10, 11, &c.
2. Or he that knoweth that the Universal Church of Christ in all Ages, hath been of another mind; and indeed went at last too far against it, having no punishment for Christians, but Suspension and Excommunication.
3. And that the Christian World at this day is of another mind, though the Helvetians are too remiss in the Principles, and most in the Practice.
4. And that the Canons of this Church requireth the Minister to deny the Sacrament to some such as you describe: And in your former Book, you pleaded this as for Conformity: And are you changed already? And shall any Wise Man follow such quick Changes?